Category Archives: Review Revue

You might not know the name Barry Adamson, but if you’re a KEXP listener you’ve likely heard him – if not any of his excellent solo work, then as a member of bands such as Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. (Those are, in fact, the two things that anybody knows about Adamson,Read more…

My Dad Is Dead is one of those band names that might just sound like a one-liner or an attempt to grab your attention, but in the case of Mark Edwards’s solo recording project, legend has it that the music on this debut LP was in fact created in direct response to the loss ofRead more…

Hey kids, it’s time for another installment of Levi Feels Old! What would you say if I told you Primus‘s debut studio album Frizzle Fry was turning 25 this year? If you’re me, you’d say “shit, I feel old.” But that’s OK, aging is a thing that happens. Some of us age better than others,Read more…

I have loved Dutch punk gods The Ex since seeing them open for American punk gods Fugazi way back in nineteen-ought-ninety-something. The sheer, gleeful energy they bring to their discordant, blissfully ragged music is something that truly needs to be beheld live. The records I own of theirs are fantastic, but they can’t quite approximateRead more…

I’ve covered a few Australian bands in this space over the years, the majority of whom appear to have been related to this Australian band. The Eastern Dark, the Internet tells me, contained ex-members of both The Celibate Rifles (Eastern Dark founder and singer James Darroch) and The Lime Spiders (bass player Bill Gibson). TheirRead more…

I’m really glad I was born when I was. The idea of going through teenagerdom without the blistering, angst-laden pounding of Ministry (particularly late ’80s and ’90s Ministry) as a soundtrack seems too awful to imagine. Apparently billions of pre-gen-Xers managed it just fine and grew into perfectly normal, well-adjusted adults – how terrible! ItRead more…

The more or less random selection of Tucson band Naked Prey‘s third album from the shelves at KEXP was something of a blessing for me – and hopefully for you – as it led me to the web site and Bandcamp page of Frontier Records, a label whose tastes seem to have been wide openRead more…

It seems I keep picking Boston bands even when I don’t know I’m doing it. I had the slightest tickle of a memory at the band name Dumptruck – they were based in my hometown and dissolved amidst one of the crappiest legal B.S. stories I’ve ever heard when I was in my early teensRead more…

Reading’s Slowdive were one of the bands that defined the shoegaze sound of the early ’90s, although their career suffered somewhat in that their first album, Just for a Day, was released just as the British press was tiring of the scene and ready for some backlash. Today, they’re remembered as a key band inRead more…

Motörhead needs no introduction, right? Right. This year, not only will the legendary rock band (don’t call ‘em metal!) turn 40, but lead growler/bass-manhandler Lemmy will hit the big seven-oh, with no sign whatsoever of slowing down. 1916 was Lemmy and crew’s ninth studio album, 16 years into their career. 22 years later, in 2013,Read more…